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From the recent "Through the Looking Glass" set with body model Iliketoshow. November,2015.
From the recent "Through the Looking Glass" set with body model Iliketoshow. November,2015.
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Location
This shot was taken in a rental studio in Portland, OR in 2015.The leather framed mirror was just hanging out over in the corner of the room.Time
After a mix-up in studio scheduling (we both thought we had booked for mid-November when in fact, we had reserved our original space for a week later) , my model and I did a little regroup, made some images at my hotel, and called around for an available space that day, finally securing one for that afternoon.This shot was created at almost six P.M. in the dark side of the studio.Lighting
I decided on a more or less static lighting scenario - a basic "Ballet Lighting" set-up with two lights relatively equidistant from the focal point; that way, we were free to move around within the light pool to change intensities rather than constantly shifting the lights themselves.Equipment
I brought two machines to this shoot; A Sigma SD1 DSLR and a Pentax K-3, along with two Impact sf-abrl160 mini monolights. This shot was taken with the Pentax and a Pentax SMC DA 18-270mm f/3.5-6.3 SDM zoom lens. I used a tripod for some shots, while the bulk of the images were hand-heldInspiration
The leather framed mirror was just hanging out over in the corner of the room and while we were doing lots of other shots, I grabbed the mirror a few times to incorporate. Since my model was quite physically developed, the mirror kind of seemed a natural choice. I had seen similar technique used in physique shots of the 1950s and wanted to emulate some of the images from the Golden Age of Bodybuilding by photographers like Pat Milo and Bruce (Bellas) of Los Angeles.Editing
To further play up the classic physique style, I pushed these images through a number of custom user presets in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom to come up with my look.In my camera bag
Though I have many, these days I tend to walk around with a Nikon D750 fitted with a Nikkor 28-300 lens.Feedback
I'd say that the "Ballet Lighting" is quite convenient because like I mention, it allows you to forget about your lights for the most part and you can dance around inside the light pool with your subject. The only thing that I might have done different would have been to perhaps set my lights at differing heights for even more shadowing options.
